The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-01-27
THE WAKE Connt, toeA Law.

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The W AXE Connt, =, toeA Law.
The biIl 10 repeal The Wake county stock
law was taken up - the unfinished buSl-
ness The majority report was Favorable
10 the bill. while the minority report stat
ed that 1t had been the understanding of
the committee that the bill should not be
treated parsttelS, but should be oeus.I /
erod wlta the omnibus DILL H marx. on
the bill were made by Meosra. Temple.
Sharp and Hoover.
An amendment WAS offered by Mr.
Saunders. providing thai the matter should
be submitted TO the people at the polls.
lie said the passage OF the bill as L stood
would be as great a hardship as the pas
sage of the law IL sought 10 repeal Mr..
Temple, said his bill provided for The
holding of elections in the TOWNSHIP s.
Mr.. peasson sad the Law did not - into
effect until next December and that before
that time the townships could hold elcc
tions.
MIR. King opposed the bill, because il
did not submit the matter Of repeal of the
law 10 the people Ii proposed an abso-
ate repeal. He said that III committee it
had been agreed TO consider All these bills
rs a whole This bill had been rushed
before the committee and not a farmer OF
Wake county had been heard on the ques-
ton. The consideration of Il single bill at
4 time consumed time. whereas If all such
bills were considered as a whole. time
would he saved
After some other debate the prey oJs
question was called. The bill came up on
It's second reading Oh Il aye and nay vote
The result was as follows: ayes 60 and
nays Il. There was much applause upon
he Republican side Of the House at the
announcement OF the result.
The County Government Bill.
At 1910 the House took up the bin 0n
troduced by Mr.. pInniXJ to repeal the
county government law. il being the special
order for to-day. The following is the full
text OF the bi,l:
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NonTH CARO-
LIMA Do ENACT:
SECTION l. That sections SIS. s19, and
$50 Of the Code be and the same are here
by repealed.
SEC. 2 That County Commissioners,
Justices Of the Peace, aud all county
school officers shall be elected in the same
manner and under the same regulations
as members of the General Assembly,
SEC. ). That ut each regular biennial
election three Justices of the Peace shall
De elected in each township in The several
counties of the State, and shall hold their
Office for Il term of two years and until
their Successors are elected ana qualified.
SEC. +. That in addition to the Justices
Of the Peace above provided for there shall
be elected by the qualified voters of each
township III which any city or incorporat
ed town IS situated one Justice Of the
Peace and also one for every one thousand
inhabitants IN each city or town, who
shall also hold his office for Il term Of two
years.
SEC ). That the term of office Of a Jus
tice of the Peace shall begin on the first
Monday OF December next after his eleC-
ton.
SEC s That whenever a new township
is established the County Commissioners
of the county in which said new township
is established shall Immediately order an
election to elect Justices OF the p 9ace for
each new township so established.
SEC. !. That all laws and clauses Of laws
in any way conflicting with this act are
hereby repealed.
SEC s. That this act shall be in force
from and after its ratification.
Mr. l'rltchard offered substitute in
the shape of an amendment. This Substi-
tlte is almost precisely like Mr., PnnX's
bill, save in the matter of the number of
County Commissioners, which t FIXES at
tIItc luSttdst ol uNt
The Debate.
Mr. PinniX, the author of the bill, opened
the debate by half hour speech III advo-
cacy of it. He attacked the Democratic
party, terming their management of State
affairs as oppressive. He declared that
this county government act was an eNhi-
bition of political coHarelice, and that the
Democrats were afraid TO trust the people
He said that the talk and scare ;b0ut ne
gro misrule and riot in the east was all
foolish. and that while the Democrats
claimed that twenty-seyen counties had
large negro ma joritles, he could find only
eight. He declared that if his bill did not
pass now it would pass tive years hehce.
He claimed that the State was going back
wards; that whereas Il few years ago. i'm
migration was attracted to North Carolina.
since the passage of this odious law it went
elsewhere.
Col Holt replied and showed that none
of Mr.. PinniX's assumptions and assertions
were based on facts. immigration was
pouring into the State in the l.ast two
years as it had never poured before, the
States credit was higher han ever before,
the educational interests had been ad-
vanced, and practically as regards the ne
gro. the Democrats had done a thousand
times more for him than the Republicans
had.
Mr. Pritchard made an attack on the
county commissioners under the present
system, accusing them of squandering the
peoples money. and of so lowering the
credit of some counties that their paper
was selling for fifty cents on the dollar.
He said that the commissioners were not
chosen by the people, and hence, feel 30
responsibility to the people, bat only 10
the head centre of the great rlng at kal-
elgh. and to the county court house rings
Mr.. Hayes offered an amendment to the
bill providing that 1t do not 90 into effect
until such time as the Republican party
shall make good its oft repeated promise
Of 40 acres and mule to the negro
Great laughter.
Mr. Turner made an attack upon The
Democrats and the present system of
county government. He declared that it
violated the chief right of the people and
struck at the tap root of all civil and po-
litical government. He said this county
government Law was d new idea of the
Democrats, gotten up IL the past few
years, because they feared the people
He said that revolutions never 90 back
ward and that the history Of all such
invasions of the peoples rights was that
shed. He attacked what he termed the
rascalities of some county commissioners
when acting as returning boards
Mr. Hayes again brought down the
house by offering resolution that the